Dodge Rose Georgia Ballerina is a painful and

Ballerina is a painful and poetic reconstruction of its narrators fractured worldview … in both the details of her family life and the bits of the mass-media reality that flow beyond the boundaries of her backyard … [she] is unreliable

Kawin argues it serves a more important function as a manipulator of our sense of time and the timeless

their daily worries as well as the grand tapestry in which they all labor to find happiness

he spends long enough away from home that he finds he isn’t really in such a hurry to escape

as the editor of The English Review and

Dodge Rose Georgia Ballerina is a painful andThe most astonishing debut novel of the decade, Dodge Rose calls to mind Henry Green in its skewed use of colloquial speech, Joyce in its love of inventories, and William Gaddis in its virtuoso lampooning of law, high finance, and national myth. Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodges apartment. When legal complications derail plans to live it up on their